Seeing that the same symbolism is common to many forms of religion, professed in countries widely apart both as regards time and space, he thinks that the danger of inquiry into faiths is not the adoption of foreign, but the relinquishment of present methods of religious belief.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

I threw myself on the bed, and remained there, almost stunned, for more than six hours, until Laura’s return from the convent with twenty napkins entirely soaked.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The foe's left arm that held him broke, And Ráma too, as swift to smite, Smashed with his heavy hand the right.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Mr. Winkle then recounted what had passed between himself and Mr. Ben Allen, relative to Arabella; stated that his object was to gain an interview with the young lady, and make a formal disclosure of his passion; and declared his conviction, founded on certain dark hints and mutterings of the aforesaid Ben, that, wherever she was at present immured, it was somewhere near the Downs.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Can this be a reference to a secret Jewish Sanhedrin, self-perpetuating within a certain Jewish caste from generation to generation?
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

They have given me their best and rarest thoughts as so many golden threads; I have only furnished the mental loom, and woven these golden threads together in my own way according to what I take to be the psychological pattern of the Fairy-Faith.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

But at Rome the Apostle spread his net for him, and he was caught in its meshes.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

The stream was broad and rapid; the ascent steep and difficult; and the intrenchments which had been formed on the ridge of the opposite bank, were lined with a numerous army of heavy cuirrasiers, dexterous archers, and huge elephants; who (according to the extravagant hyperbole of Libanius) could trample with the same ease a field of corn, or a legion of Romans.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The stream was broad and rapid; the ascent steep and difficult; and the intrenchments which had been formed on the ridge of the opposite bank, were lined with a numerous army of heavy cuirassiers, dexterous archers, and huge elephants; who (according to the extravagant hyperbole of Libanius) could trample with the same ease a field of corn, or a legion of Romans.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Let other men be averse, rail then and scoff at women, and say what they can to the contrary, vir sine uxore malorum expers est , &c., a single man is a happy man, &c., but this is a toy.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In the woods behind him he heard Sal leaping and rushing about, giving chase to an imaginary rabbit, or barking a reply to a saucy jay.
— from The Heart of Cherry McBain: A Novel by Douglas Durkin

Sometimes there were days when the village dress-maker arrived after breakfast and remained till almost supper time, converting the upstairs front chamber into a maze of threads and snippings, and requisitioning the button box in long searches for “a set of six”.
— from Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Walter Prichard Eaton

[Pg 37] with remarking that they had been taught in a different style, and had been always recommended to avoid such theatrical music as the unhappy duet now under discussion.
— from Margaret Capel: A Novel, vol. 3 of 3 by Ellen Wallace

Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.
— from A Critical Examination of Socialism by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

CHAPTER XXXV—WINGED BIRDS AND ROOTED TREES A summer’s afternoon in London!
— from The Raft by Coningsby Dawson

He had been bred in puritan and republican tradition, with love of God and love of law and freedom and love of country all penetrating it, and then he had been accidentally removed to a strange city that was in active ferment with ideas that were the direct abnegation of all these.
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley

The advantage of the shaking table system lies in a reduction of the number of hands, who only need to be in attendance at each end of the system, and further in the regularity, both as regards time and strength, which prevails in connection with the shaking of each mould.
— from The Manufacture of Chocolate and other Cacao Preparations by Paul Zipperer

In one place he justifies his standpoint by a reference to a special case, and I will take this as the starting-point of my own consideration of the question.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen